Lisa Chesters MP will join the best and brightest of the region’s young sporting community tonight to celebrate each receiving a $500 grant as part of the Australian Government’s Local Sporting Champions program.

Federal Member for Bendigo, Lisa Chesters MP, has welcomed news the Kangaroo Flat Aquatic Centre will receive $5 million in funding through the National Stronger Regions Fund, ticking off another item on her first term agenda.

Tony Abbott was today sent a strong message from the people of Bendigo – hands off Medicare.

Bendigo’s elected representatives will cut up a cheque to Bendigo Health for $24,850,404 on Tuesday, July 1 – the amount Tony Abbott has ripped from the hospital in the Budget.

Lisa Chesters MP will be spending a day at Mercy Health Bethlehem Home for the Aged as part of her ‘A Day in Your Shoes’ project on Friday, June 20.

The Medicare co-payment has not come into effect and will not until it passes through the Senate.

Hospitals in the Bendigo electorate will be nearly $29 million worse off over the next five years due to cuts in the Federal Liberal Government’s Budget.

Federal Member for Bendigo Lisa Chesters today presented awards to two sporting teams and 16 individuals who will share in $14,000 from the Australian Government’s Local Sporting Champions program.

Central Victorian Hospitals have been delivered a double dose of pain by the Liberal Federal and State Government Budget cuts.

Lisa Chesters MP is urging the government not to delay the rollout of the National Disability Insurance Scheme.